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August 18, 2008

The way to go!

Ok, so you’re in New York and you’re hurting. You just got to get to a bathroom, or the world as you know it may end. Fear not, whip out the mobile and jump on Diaroogle.

The odd named website site follows the same premise as MizPee, unbelievably there are two sites (in fact probably more) dedicated to the task. If you are still unsure, then ‘that task’ is to direct you to a ‘decent’, and for the sake of my reputation we’ll stick with the American terminology, bathroom. In Diaroogle’s own words the site is for, “… the discerning, on-the-go defecator who is brave enough to use a public bathroom, but still demands a hygienic and private bathroom experience. It is also a community authored database of New York toilets.” Eloquent and succinct.

Avoid such scenes with Diaroogle

Josh Lowensohn of WebWare rolls around some details, including the rating system in place for grading each establishment. Tiffany & Co. score particularly well.

What a site like Diaroogle shows is that geo-tagging social interaction is trying to push itself into a more mainstream arena for the casual web user, arguably be useful, more useful in fact that the usual alternatives. Or, maybe I’ve delved to deep and in fact some alec simply came up with the name and attached a site to it…

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